hush

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" and Bastien is like "nope nope better for the users hush".What a bunch of tools.

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Quick take

(poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hush gathered in one view.

noun

(poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"

verb

become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"

verb

cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hush.

noun

(poetic) tranquil silence; "the still of the night"

verb

become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"

verb

cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"

verb

become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"

verb

wash by removing particles; "Wash ores"

verb

run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals

Example sentences

" and Bastien is like "nope nope better for the users hush".What a bunch of tools.

They have just done a good job keeping them hush hush and talking people out of going to the cops.

I took a part time job in applied math and computing on some US DoD problems -- hush, hush stuff.

There were a number of teams that kept everything covered up and hush hush until their first fight.

I have serious misgivings about this sort of "hush money".

The NYT knew for years and stayed hush to keep their access to the political establishment.

As a result they make such adjustments rarely, and try to keep them all hush-hush so nobody finds out, but it never works.

Those that I find are workign on something on the side are very hush-hush about it, because of non-compete stuff.

You can either drop the ten-ton weight of the zero-tolerance policy, now matter how inappropiate, or you hush the matter up. And that often isn't a good alternative.

They've actually done a great job of keeping fraudulent activity under-hush, but I'm sure it's been a major problem...Also, one of the main issues with a marketplace that fulfils the service/product at a future date is the uncertainty that the home owners actually exist.